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21-Day Super Healthy Kickstart PCRM

2011-04-16T06:22:00.000-07:00

21-Day Vegan Kickstart / a Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) site:

A Message from Brendan Brazier

At 15, I decided I wanted to be an Ironman triathlete. This led me to look at the importance of a plant-based diet for athletes. Many people associate the word “diet” with a restrictive way of eating. It doesn’t have to be. A vegan diet is one of inclusion, not exclusion. When you include only healthy plant-based foods in your diet, you’ll find there won’t be room left for the unhealthy ones. Considering what you are gaining, taking this time to transition is a positive investment. The payback is higher-quality living—and possibly winning Ironman triathlons, like I have.

For a few of my nutrition tips, visit my Kickstart page >

John Salley - Vegetarian Basketball Champion

2011-04-06T06:18:00.000-07:00

21-Day Vegan Kickstart / a Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) site: "A Message from

A Message from John Salley

As a four-time NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons, the Chicago Bulls, and the Los Angeles Lakers, I know a thing or two about staying on top of my game. For me, that means embracing a true vegetarian diet (no dairy, no egg products) to keep my body energized and healthy. Succeeding as a champion in the game of life takes plenty of nutritious fuel for the mind and body. Grab this opportunity with both hands-your health and happiness depends on it.

For a few of my nutrition tips, visit my Kickstart page >

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org

We can be heroes - just for one day

2011-03-09T09:33:00.000-08:00

I will eat a sustainable healthy plantarian, pure vegetarian, vegan diet:

Up up and away, this is the year of change - the future is in your hands

Vegan Superfood Farm in Olympic Stadium

2010-04-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

London's Olympic Stadium to be Turned into Swamp admit Health Ministers by Foods For Life London Nutrition - Yvonne Bishop-weston

APRIL 1st 2010 : London's West Ham football club have woken up dissappointed today with the news that after the 2012 Olympics, instead of a sport's ground, the 2012 olympic Stadium will be used to farm the vegan super food - Algae.

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Vegan Fighter :New Xbox Game

2010-02-18T01:12:00.000-08:00

Vegan Fighter Mac Danzig Kicks Ass In New Xbox Game « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

A new X box game featuring champion vegan fighter Mac Danzig has sold half a million copies in just 2 weeks! Yeehaaa!

Veganising Blockheads - is that possible?

Vegan MoFo

2009-10-01T00:27:00.000-07:00

Vegan Mo Fo VeganMoFo III: Vegan Month of Food, with over 320 Vegan Blogs Participating ( News from Hungry Hungry Veganos )

The 3rd Annual Vegan Month of Food (aka VeganMoFo) prepares to take the blogosphere by storm. Starting October 1st, over 320 Vegan bloggers from all around the globe will pledge to post at least five days a week for the whole month of October. The most dedicated participants try to blog all 31 days. Food writers, bloggers, and home cooks will write about what they eat, where they have eaten, what they cook, and where they are doing the cooking, all with the intention of showing off the wide and varied world of Vegan food and lifestyle.

VeganMoFo kicks off on October 1st and continues through the month of October. You can find the alphabetized list of all participating blogs online at Cake Maker to the Stars (http://kitteekake.blogspot.com). There you can also find a link to the public RSS feed, where anyone can browse the latest posts from all the participating blogs in one place! (http://kitteekake.blogspot.com/2009/09/vegan-mofo-iii-public-feed-info.html)

First organized by Vegan chef and cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz (theppk.com), Vegan MoFo has been gathering more and more enthusiasts each year. Participants begin brainstorming themes for their month-of-daily-entries with great enthusiasm. In previous years, bloggers have written about everything from Veganizing recipes to eating in foreign countries, to 31 days of Vegan Halloween-themed treats, to local restaurants, and to reviewing Vegan products. Posts include beautiful photographs, tantalizing recipes, and thoughtful musings.

What better way to warm up for World Vegan Day at the Eco Veggie Fayre in London

World Vegan Day

2009-07-22T13:43:00.000-07:00

World Vegan Day

What? World Vegan Day
is an opportunity for vegans and their friends to celebrate and promote
veganism

When? World Vegan Day
is every year on November 1st (since 1994)

Why? The world's first
Vegan Society was born on November 1st 1944 - started by Donald
Watson and friends.

Where? World Vegan Day
is celebrated internationally all over the world.

How? World Vegan Day
is celebrated in many different ways,

from a
simple birthday party to a full vegan festival with exhibitions of
vegan food and products, talks on nutrition and cooking demonstrations.

Wishing
you very best wishes for an ethical, environmentally friendly

and healthy World Vegan Day - 1st November

Vegan Cook Book Launch, Celebrity DVD

2009-05-20T02:48:00.000-07:00

Vegan Cook Book Launch, Celebrity DVD & UK’s Top 10 Vegetarian Celebrity Products

I think it's only fair that I declare, well not really a conflict of interest, it's my blog after all, but a vested interest.

Our new Vegan Cookbook by Lorenz comes out (finally) in June but journalists are invited to have a sneak preview at some advanced copies at The National Vegetarian Week Big Breakfast event at tibits in Piccadilly London on Thursday 21st May

New Champions of fruit and Vegetables?

2008-12-11T03:51:00.000-08:00

New Ice Age Wall of Ice

Vegetarianism has found a new Superhero in the shape of The British Frozen Food Federation.

Intent on publicising the environmental and health benefits of food preserved with Nature's most natural preserving method, the BFFF Ice Wall installation on London's arty South Bank was a crowd puller for London's Commuters yesterday.

It was like a vegetarian version of Damian Hirst's revolting pickled animals!

Let's hope the BFFF get involved in National Vegetarian Week in 2009 and help to celebrate 65 years of vegans promoting fresh fruit and vegetables.

Something Fishy Mobile Vegan Catering

2008-11-20T05:23:00.000-08:00

Something Fishy Mobile Vegan Catering

Vegan Fishy Superheroes need help!

The amazing world's first vegan fish and chip van is under threat within 12 months of it's start up. Seems the original van was a bit of a lemon and the volunteers need £20,000 for a new van.

If you know someone who could help the van is used by tens of thousands of people each year - a good opportunity for a company who makes eco friendly green vans I think or someone like Redwoods who make vegan fish alternatives (such as fishless fingers)

Perhaps you just have too big a tax bill this year and would rather it go to this worthy cause than towards fighting wars in Iraq etc.

Something Fishy Mobile Vegan Catering

Vegan Catering Challenge Winners

2008-11-16T10:28:00.000-08:00

Vegan Winners - catering challenge

The Vegan Society Challenge Winners 2008

Paul Russell, a Lecturer in Hospitality and Culinary Arts Management at University College Birmingham, scooped first prize (a cheque for £500).
Second prize (£200) was secured by Peter Walters, Executive Chef, Keele University based at Keele Hall – ‘the premier conference and fine dining experience in Staffordshire’.
Third prize (£100) was went to Richard Craig, Competing Chef at University of Glasgow Hospitality Services.
The other finalists were John Bayley (owner of Cashew - Creative Vegetarian and Vegan Catering, in Lewes, East Sussex); Wayne Shooter (Chef at HMP Whatton near Nottingham); and Terry Woolcock(Executive Chef at Hatherley Manor Hotel).

World Stinging Nettle Eating championship - Brightcove

2008-11-10T18:27:00.000-08:00

World Stinging Nettle Eating championship - Brightcove

Is this the maddest Vegan pastime ever - A stinging Nettle eating competition! Now that's an extreme Sport!

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=769428091

World Vegan Day 2008

2008-10-25T15:05:00.000-07:00

World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day Events in Montreal Canada, Los Angeles California, Melborne and Sydney Australia, and in the UK. Book launches, Film Premieres, Fashion Shows, free tastings and more.

World Vegan Day all day meal ticket in Glasgow
at the 78,Mono and Stereo Glasgow

World Vegan Day Festival in Wolverhampton

World Vegan Day launch of new magazine - Off the Hoof.

World Vegan Day Vegan Pizza Challenge

World Vegan Day 2008

World Vegan Day Poll

Chrissie Hynde Veggie Cafe Enters Burger Competition

2008-09-13T06:14:00.000-07:00

Chrissie Hynde Akron Burgers - Scratch Crib

Chrissie Hynde's chef at her Veggie Cafe VegiTerranean in Arkon Ohio is entering his vegan burger in the Local Hamburger Competition. Arkon claims to be the birthplace of the Hamburger so Chef Scott Jones will make history if he wins.

Search For Super Vegan Superhero

2008-05-29T11:55:00.000-07:00

Environmentalists search for Supervegan Superhero

In these desperate times the search is on to find a Superhero to fight for truth, and justice, and against the American way of over consumption and un-sustainability.

Although there is high hopes for Oprah Winfrey now she has embarked on a vegan diet she falls short of expectations especially in the underwear department.

Tough times call for tough cookies (Wholegrain buckwheat perhaps?)

At Bristol Vegan Fayre a number of superheroes have stepped forward to take the mantle of Supervegan Superhero.

Eco Girl
Marmiteman
Raw Food Man
Wonderpig
Super Dinner Lady
Lush Man
The Invisible Man

On Sunday we'll find out the people's choice - The Vote follows the announcements of the Winners of the National BVF Vegan Awards

Will Lush-man win the peoples' hearts? Has this smelly caped crusader got what it takes to clean up the planet? Will his vegetarian foibles lose him votes withh the hard core Vegans?

Come and See at the Bristol Vegan Fayre - Late Entries welcomed!!!!!!!!!!

BBC going vegan

2008-05-28T08:19:00.000-07:00

Read our 60 second guide to... going vegan

Supervegan heroes of the Week are...............The BBC. At last they have followed in the footsteps of BBC Food and loaded up a vegan page. Not much about Vegan diet effects on Carbon emmissions and saving the environment but it's a start none-the-less!

You learn more by going to the vegan festival in Bristol this weekend but like I said - it's a start.

Super Vegans Show Bad Manners for National Vegetarian Week

2008-05-06T03:58:00.000-07:00

Vegan shows Bad Manners for National Vegetarian Week

Super Vegan Heroes at Hemp Heckling Yaoh Hemp Products in Bristol are planning extreme Bad Manners during National Vegetarian Week as they shout louder, bigger and bolder. Even in London it seems the most The Vegetarian Society can muster for National Vegetarian Week is a Lush Pamper Party Event and a Battle of The Bangers event in Croydon.

Meanwhile in Bristol Green Vegans are planning an awesome event with 10,000 people, the world's biggest vegan BBQ, shopping, talks, green stuff, cookery demos and an Awesome line up of bands set to Rock the UK. Not just Bad Manners, but Misty in Roots, Aswad, DreadZone and a host of others from world of Jazz, Ska , Reggae, Pop and Rock. There is even a best dressed Vegan Super Hero Competition so get your supervegan superhero costumes out of the dry cleaners

Bristol Vegan Fayre

Saf Restaurant & Bar London

2008-04-16T08:01:00.000-07:00

Saf Restaurant and Bar London

This is it, the one, the super vegan restaurant, the light to lead all others.

Saf

The 247 lb. Vegan - WSJ.com

2008-03-17T08:41:00.000-07:00

The 247 lb. Vegan - WSJ.com

American footballers have a notoriously shorter average lifespan. Here's one american footballer who is trying to break the mould.

The protein-rich bounty of the football training table is supposed to grow the biggest and strongest athletes in professional sports. Kansas City Chiefs tight-end Tony Gonzalez was afraid it was going to kill him. "It's the Catch-22," says Mr. Gonzalez, 31. "Am I going to be unhealthy and play football? Or be healthy and get out of the league?"

Read more at the Wall Street Journal

Looking for Super Vegan Super Heroes

2008-03-04T18:00:00.000-08:00

Hi Y'all

I need your help.

The Bristol Vegan Fayre. ( www.bristolveganfayre.co.uk)is planning a Best dressed Vegan Superhero competition.

Do you or anyone you know have leanings in the superhero direction?

See here for inspiration

Legion of Fire - Myspace

So far we have

EcoGirl (Sunny)
Wonderpig
Supervegan
RawfoodMan (James)
Captain Lush

Aaaaaand.................

MarmiteMan!

Catchphrases: "To Insanity and beyond!", "Have you tried it sublingually madam?",

LOVE him or HATE him there's one thing you can't deny about marmite man. He's always willing and able to help a young nervous damsel in distress with deficencies. He prides himself in spreading himself thinly so he can go farther and help more people.

Our caped crusader may be dark, mysterious and inherently savoury but his prowess in saving humans from chronic disease are well documented.

He is accomplished in the kitchen and can transform a bland non-descript dish into a tongue tantalising taste sensation within seconds.

He is particularly good with soldiers.

Arch enemy: HOMOCYSTEINE

Super vegan Powers: tongue tantalising, Can cure blondeness, Strengthen hearts, createDNA, and assist in conitive function.

Weaknesses; MarmiteMan's Krytonite are drugs such as Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) used to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and peptic ulcer disease. Examples of PPIs are Omeprazole (Prilosec©) and Lansoprazole (Prevacid©) H2 receptor antagonists used to treat peptic ulcer disease. Examples are Tagamet©, Pepsid©, and Zantac©, and Metformin© a drug used to treat diabetes. All of these drugs are thought to reduce MarmiteMan's superpowers. In addition the contraceptive pill and alcohol may also impair his powers

Vegan Environmental Awards 2008

2008-01-10T12:43:00.000-08:00

Vegan Environmental Awards 2008

Chance to Win a hamper worth £50 every month just for voting!

Happy World Vegan Day - Pass it on!

2007-10-25T16:11:00.000-07:00

Wishing you very best wishes for an ethical, environmentally friendly and healthy

World Vegan Day - 1st November

PASS IT ON!

If you do nothing else, please vote in the World Vegan Day poll and please sign the petition

For Life, Health, Planet

WorldVegan Day Petition

World Vegan Day Poll

World Vegan Day Veganize a Pizza Campaign

World Vegan Day 1st November

Organic Athlete - Super Vegans

2007-10-04T12:50:00.000-07:00

OrganicAthlete

Looking for Vegan athletes? Here's a whole website of super vegan supervegans .......

Erica O'Connor, Inline Skater
Brent Poulsen, Triathlete
Jennifer Argenti, Surfer
Duncan Seko, Runner and Cyclist
James Southwood, Savate Martial Artist
Wendy Gabbe, Basketballer & Duathlete
Catherine Johnson, Elite Cyclist
Rob Bell, Inline Skater
Tim VanOrden, Mountain Runner
Schulyer Love, Boxer
Maria Vlasak, Elite Duathlete
Molly Cameron, Pro Cyclist
Scott Jurek, Ultramarathoner
Kenneth Williams, Pro Bodybuilder
Katie Coryell, Pro Surfer
Christine Vardaros, Pro Cyclist
Tonya Kay, Dancer
Robert Cheeke, Bodybuilder
Adam Myerson, Pro Cyclist
Brendan Brazier, Pro Triathlete
Jason Sager, Pro Mountain Biker

See their profile pages at www.organicathlete.org

72 Year Old Vegan Mr America

2007-10-03T03:52:00.000-07:00

abc7.com: 72-Year-Old Bodybuilder Going Strong

Jim Morris: Vegan Mr America - Black is truly beautiful and fit - even at 72

"I feel fabulous, honestly," said Jim Morris. "I don't take any medications, I don't have any pain. All my joints are wonderful."

But how does he keep the physique? He still works out for an hour a day, six days a week. And his diet is made up of nuts, beans, fruits, and vegetables. That means no meat, no chicken, no fish, and according to Jim, cheese is the worst.

He shares more of the mind behind his muscle in this month's "Iron Man" magazine. He's the oldest man ever to be featured.

"People say you look so good for your age. I don't think so. I think this is the way 70 should look," said Jim.

See the Jim Morris Website at www.gymmorris.com

PETRA NEMCOVA goes vegan

2007-07-04T10:26:00.000-07:00

NEWS NEMCOVA'S FISH FEAR TURNS HER VEGAN Music, movie & Entertainment News

PETRA NEMCOVA Czech super model and survivor of the Tsunami (by hanging onto a palm tree)has now gone vegan.

She tells Britain's Closer magazine, "I recently became vegan because I'm going green and not eating fish.
"They say if we keep fishing like we are, there will be no more fish left."

Super vegan superfoods Banned!

2007-07-02T04:32:00.000-07:00

Healthy Eating , Nutrition and Health News

Whilst people get sicker and sicker due to bad diets the EU is busy trying to discourage you eating supervegan superfoods ! Now that's sick!

Super Vegan Firemen

2007-06-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

World Vegetarian And Vegan News: Vegan Firemen - Healthy Firefighters

These guys are the real fantastic four! Four Vegan Fireman from Austin Texas

The firefighters of Team C at Firehouse 2 — Rip Esselstyn, James Rae, Matt Moore, Derick Zwerneman and Scott Walters — now eat vegan, taking turns whipping up plant-based fare like meatless and cheeseless pizza, pasta primavera and spinach enchiladas.

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Super Vegan rock climber - Steph Davis

2007-06-25T03:28:00.000-07:00

Author shares love of rock climbing - Living - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

Vegan Steph Davis is a real life spiderman and no coincidence that like Toby Maguire who brought the Hollywood spiderman to life, she says she owes her success to a vegan diet.

Steph Davis 34, who lives part of the year in Yosemite and part in Moab, Utah, is one of the top rock climbers in the world, and the second of only two women to solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan.

"When I was younger, I was into strength training, but five years ago, I found that time spent doing yoga is much more beneficial. You're always trying to do a different move with the least amount of energy, and other times, you're trying to rest one body part, so if you've trained your muscles to relax in odd positions, you save a lot of energy."

Steph Davis found veganism indirectly, by trying a lot of different diets, as many athletes do. She remembers being sure that one diet she wouldn't use was veganism.

"Climbers have always said that you need animal protein to climb," she says, "But I tried all these different things, and at one point I did a cleansing fast of about a week, and when it was time to start again, everything was unappealing. But after a couple of weeks, I found that I was eating vegan.

"So I went with it. And strangely, I started to make these leaps in my climbing and even in running. That's when I free-climbed El Cap in a day. Then I climbed even better in Patagonia.

"With the one diet that wasn't going to work! So that was a lesson to me."

more

http://www.climbandmore.com/climbing,38,0,1,interviews.html

International Environmental and Ethical Lifestyle Festival to Host Vegan & Vegetarian Awards - Free-Press-Release.com

2007-01-10T18:46:00.000-08:00

International Environmental and Ethical Lifestyle Festival to Host Vegan & Vegetarian Awards

VOTE NOW for a chance to win one of the hampers worth £50

http://www.bristolveganfayre.co.uk/vote

Supervegan Supersavers avoid Superflous

2006-09-12T15:49:00.000-07:00

Of course one doesn't want to be smug, but it's hard enough what with BSE, Foot and Mouth, Salmonella, E Coli, Swine Fever, cholesterol, saturated fat, hormones, pus without this latest piece in the Daily Mail.

Of course many vegans try to avoid the drugs tested on animals and including animal ingredients and gelatine capsules. The argument of testing drugs destined for humans on animals is a shakey one and instances like this do nothing to inspire confidence in the multinational multi billionaire companies that peddle them.

More of us than ever are succumbing to chronic disease, and the figures make grim reading.
One in six of us is set to develop diabetes, and expected to die prematurely, the most likely cause being heart disease, stroke or cancer.

By the age of 50, one in three of us will be officially obese and a quarter of us will spend the last 30 years of our lives with the pain of arthritis.
At the moment, what happens to all these people hit by chronic disease?
In a word, drugs - perhaps two or three to start with, then a dozen or more towards the end.
Many more of us will be put on drugs for less serious conditions such as high blood pressure or raised cholesterol, with the promise that they will reduce our chances of joining the ranks of the chronically ill.

But is this really the best way to deal with the rising tide of poor health? So many of us view doctors as a kind of one-stop pill dispensary that we rarely consider how limited this way of thinking is.

In fact, we have a prescription addiction and we really need to kick the habit, because the truth of what drugs are really doing for us makes worrying reading.

In the UK, 10,000 people are killed every year by adverse drug reactions (ADRs) which happen when the prescription drug supposed to be curing you kills or harms you instead.

That is more than the number who die from cervical cancer, taking illegal drugs, cancer of the mouth and passive smoking combined.

It's actually more dangerous to visit your doctor than it is to drive your car - in 2004, traffic accidents were responsible for some 3,221 deaths.

Yet a further 40,000 people each year are made sick enough by drugs they are taking to be admitted to hospital.

Yet while most things that could harm us are a focus of campaigns and charities who work tirelessly to limit the damage, nothing comparable is happening to cut our use of the drugs that harm us.

So why is so little being done to warn us of the dangers? We have both the pharmaceutical industry and the health authorities to blame.
It seems we are in the grip of an extensive and deliberate cover-up by drug companies, who appear to hide the negative side of their products and buy our loyalty through paying those we believe in, including our GPs.

Stated as baldly as that, these claims may sound wildly exaggerated. But let's look at the facts.
Sixty per cent of seminars and courses our GPs attend are funded by drug companies.
In the UK the pharmaceutical industry spends £3.3 billion a year on research, financing about 90 per cent of all clinical drug trials. That could hardly be called independent research.
A report in the Nineties found that out of all 56 studies conducted by drug companies into painkillers, not a single one was unfavourable to the company that sponsored the trial.
A Parliamentary health committee hearing was told by one consultant cardiologist that he was offered bribes by a pharmaceutical company not to publish unfavourable research results.
Some drug companies can spend up to £10,000 a year targeting an individual doctor with drug reps or salespeople who provide information about latest developments.
And as an article in The Lancet suggests, it's not clear that doctors are immune to the drug companies' persuasiveness.

Within just six months of the Cox-2 drugs like Vioxx being marketed for conditions such as arthritis, they'd become the preferred form of pain relief for 55 per cent of doctors. This was due not to what the patient needed but was based on "physician preference".
In 2005, the UK's Parliamentary health committee investigation, the little-publicised but very telling report, The Influence Of The Pharmaceutical Industry, concluded:
"(the industry) buys influence over doctors, charities, patient groups, journalists and politicians, whose regulation is sometimes weak or ambiguous".

Full Spectrum Dominance is a term used by the American military which involves being ready "to defeat any adversary and control any situation across the range of military operations".
But it's actually not a bad description of the strategy employed by the pharmaceutical industry throughout the process, from creating drugs to testing and selling them.
Even worse, the very organisations we put our trust in, such as the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), part of the Department of Health, seems far too intimate with the drug companies to regulate them effectively.

Many reading this will be shocked. After all, when you are ill or worried about being ill, you want to be able to trust your doctor, and indeed authorities such as the MHRA and the Government, and believe that the treatment they recommend is designed only to make you better.
This is just the culture surrounding the drugs, what about the actual products themselves?
There is plenty of evidence that many of today's bestselling medicines are money-making devices rather than effective, safe, affordable and practical remedies.
To begin with, the drugs for chronic disease almost never do anything about the underlying cause. They're designed to treat symptoms, raised blood pressure, the pain in your joints. And, in the end, they don't do the job.

It's important to understand we're not talking about medicines used in emergencies here.
No one would want to be without antibiotics for meningitis for instance — but those used for the prevention and treatment of the chronic conditions that now plague us — arthritis, depression, diabetes, heart disease.

Suppose your doctor discovered that your blood-sugar level is getting dangerously high and that you have Type 2 diabetes. You will very likely be given a drug called metformin, which will bring down your blood-sugar level.

Once it's done its job, however, metformin will obviously not get to the root of why you've got blood-sugar problems in the first place.

Another problem with instantly reaching for the prescription pad is that many of the most widely-used drugs turn out to have dangerous and debilitating side-effects.
And these side-effects are made even more damaging by the drug companies' practice of downplaying and concealing them.

The story of what happened to the painkiller Vioxx provides a valuable lens through which to look at just how the drug industry, governmental agencies and the medical profession behave.
The drug, which was taken by 80 million worldwide was very high profile, and sold to us as a 'super aspirin' with none of the gut problems associated with the previous generation of painkillers.

It then emerged that Vioxx had potentially dangerous side-effects, boosting the risk of blood clots and doubling the risk of heart attacks, and it was withdrawn in 2004.
It rapidly emerged that behind the scenes, alarm bells had been ringing for years about the drug's link with these problems.

In 1998, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania had sent the results of a trial showing the possibility of a link with heart disease to Merck, makers of Vioxx.

In 2001, a big analysis of trials involving 18,000 patients getting Vioxx found that compared with an old form of pain relief it caused between four and fives times as many heart attacks.
There are now an estimated 10,000 court cases outstanding against Merck brought by patients in the U.S. who claim to have been damaged by the drug and not properly warned about the risks.

One expert estimates that 140,000 Americans were killed or now suffer from vascular problems as a result of the drug, and the cost of legal actions to Merck has been put at from $5-$50billion.
There are 400 people from the UK who are also now trying to sue Merck.
Of course, it could just be that this was an unfortunate accident, the sort that happens in the best-run industries.

Planes crash, buildings go up in smoke, but in general we are confident that systems are in place to keep such preventable disasters to an absolute minimum. One of the reasons for our confidence is that in the wake of such disasters, there is an inquiry to find out what went wrong.

Unfortunately, this kind of inquiry never happens in the wake of drug disasters because regulators have all too often looked the other way — another problem with the industry.
After Vioxx was withdrawn, for instance, the MHRA took no apparent action.
The report, The Influence Of The Pharmaceutical Industry, concluded that the way drugs are monitored after they are launched was "inadequate", that medical institutions were "indifferent", and that the MHRA knew little about "the overall impact of drug-related illnesses in the community".

It called for changes, one being that the MRHA should actively be on the lookout for problems with side-effects and that there there should be a public inquiry whenever a drug is withdrawn.
But the Government has chosen not to take action on any of these. But why not?
It is perhaps significant that not only is the MHRA almost entirely funded by the drug companies, to the tune of £65 million, but it wasn't until the beginning of 2005 that MHRA members were banned from having shares and financial links with drug companies.

The sense that drug companies' interests were the agency's first priority and patients' a distant second was reinforced by Richard Brook, director of the mental health charity Mind and the first patient's representative to sit on an MHRA review committee. He declared himself "horrified" in October 2004 to find that the agency had kept quiet about the possible dangers of higher doses of certain drugs for at least a decade. When he resigned, he declared that the MHRA was either guilty of "extreme negligence or worse, dishonesty".

Documents obtained recently by another journalist via the UK's Freedom of Information Act showed that the industry privately drew up its own detailed blueprint of how the MHRA should be run, proposing to "build on the excellent working relationship between the industry and the regulator".

It is, surely, an arrangement that is a little too cosy? The fact that people are being damaged unnecessarily by drugs that are being prescribed to millions is bad enough.

But the myth that these drugs are all firmly science-based has led to another, possibly even more harmful long-term effect on our health. It has meant that any non-drug treatments that do tackle the underlying problem and don't inevitably have side-effects are not researched properly, and end up regarded by mainstream doctors as unscientific and ineffective.

Yet it is clear that food and supplements directly affect many of the same biochemical pathways in the body that drugs target, but with far fewer side-effects. For instance, omega-3 fats lower production of the same inflammatory chemicals that Vioxx does without damaging the heart.

Statins work by reducing the amount of cholesterol in the blood. But how well do they work when compared to a change in diet?

A study published in 2002 found that after four years, those on the Mediterranean diet had a 70 per cent lower incidence of heart disease, three times better than the usual risk reduction in similar patients given statins.

There are many other examples of the way nutrition targets the same pathways as drugs, only more safely, and cheaply. Given the way the truth about drugs is often spun or concealed, handling chronic disease with various non-drug methods makes a lot of sense.

Arthritis pills gave me a heart attack
Frederick Myers, 68, from Norfolk is married to Angela, 59. Three years ago the retired IT technician, suffered a heart attack after taking Vioxx for several years. He is now pursuing damages from manufacturer, Merck, through the American courts. He says:
Before I started taking Vioxx, in early 2000, I was a relatively fit 62-year-old, who just happened to have rheumatoid arthritis. Today I still have RA but in addition to that I have gone through the trauma of a major heart attack and have been left with an ongoing heart condition. I take stacks of pills every day. Perhaps worst of all I have to live with the knowledge that the people who run the drug company Merck knew it was dangerous and kept selling it. To say it makes me angry is an understatement.

I had been living with my rheumatoid arthritis for about six years before my GP told me about this new drug called Vioxx. I was thrilled because it offered pain relief with no side-effects. I started taking it and after about three months the arthritis improved.
For nearly three years everything was fine. My yearly check-ups showed I had normal levels of cholesterol and blood pressure. But out of the blue, and against all medical expectations, in December 2003 I suffered a major heart attack.

The consultant cardiologist looked at my medical records and said he was surprised that it had happened to me. A few weeks later I recommended Vioxx to my friend Alex, who checked it out on the internet. He rang with me the news that Vioxx had been implicated in heart problems. I then contacted a British law firm. As the case rumbles on through the courts, back in real world I am suffering the consequences of taking Vioxx. I get out of breath very quickly and that affects every area of my life. I can't even play football with the grandchildren.

I understand that drugs have side-effects but it is the duty of the drug company to tell us about them and let us make up our own mind. If I'd been given the knowledge I wouldn't have taken Vioxx. You can live with RA but you can't live without a heart that works. A spokesman for Merck said: "Merck & Co. Inc. acted responsibly and appropriately as we developed and marketed Vioxx. When questions arose about the safety of Vioxx we took steps to investigate and address these issues head on."

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What? World Vegan Day
is an opportunity for vegans and their friends to celebrate and promote
veganism

When? World Vegan Day
is every year on November 1st (since 1994)

Why? The world's first
Vegan Society was born on November 1st 1944 - started by Donald
Watson and friends.

Where? World Vegan Day
is celebrated internationally all over the world.

How? World Vegan Day
is celebrated in many different ways,

from a
simple birthday party to a full vegan festival with exhibitions of
vegan food and products, talks on nutrition and cooking demonstrations.